Male contraceptive options?

I'm not sure this is entirely the right place for this, but I've read some interesting stuff on here before about contraceptive options for men. Basically, I wanted to know what my options are (besides condoms), and what experiences people have had with different methods? When I looked online, the NHS provides or suggests 15 methods of contraception, but the only ones for men are condoms and vasectomies. All the advice seems to be written solely for women.

I recently ended a (very) long term relationship. Thinking about getting back out there, but the whole baby thing is worrisome. I would like to have kids someday, maybe in a few years, so I don't want to go for complete sterility (i.e. vasectomy). BTW, I'm in the UK if that changes anything. You folks have any advice for me? Thanks!

There was a huge discussion about this in the female community a while back. I want to make it clear that women are COMPLETELY for men starting to take the reins in the world of contraceptives.

A lot of naysayers were arguing that men wouldn't want to undergo any procedure that would damage their manly bits, and that especially when it came to vasectomies, that there was a pervasive attitude that you lost your "manliness" if you got fixed. I'm not sure how true any of that is, or if it still applies these days.

I know my boyfriend was personally extremely aggressive when it came to me suggesting that he get a vasectomy once we would be finished having children in the future, leaving me to dwell on the responsibility of getting surgically fixed myself (which comes with a slew of risks for me as a woman).

It would be awesome if this stuff could become mainstream, popular, and covered by insurance companies, which would mean that I could stop taking these god damned pills.

condoms are the best - best for minimising STDs (minimising, not eliminating) and up there with the best for contraception too. If you're in the UK then look at that crazy guy who made custom fitted condoms, I hear they're great.

Blocked by social and political barricades. Don't get your hopes up, we won't see a male birth control pill for a very long time. Male BC has been in development for over 20 years now, and anytime they get close the funding dries up or the researchers are presented with new hoops to jump through.

I recognize there are factors and forces opposed to our desire, but that does not make me abandon hope. Instead it inspires me to ask "How can I alter this social opposition? How can I influence the political system?"

I'm sure gay rights had a lot of "social and political barricades" for a long time. And so did legalization of marijuana. But these things are moving forward, before our very eyes.

Just because it hasn't happened yet is no reason to believe it won't. Always remember that cynicism is a weak-minded response to difficulty. Cynicism is the intellectual equivalent of learned helplessness.

The Men's Rights subreddit is a place for those who wish to discuss men's rights and the ways said rights are infringed upon. As a result, we have been earning scorn from bigoted feminists and white knights since 2008.
---
**Some challenges faced by males:**
False accusations
Vilification
Custody Discrimination
Legal Discrimination
Education Discrimination
Lack of social support
Workplace Fatalities
Selective Service
Male Genital Mutilation